Citations with the tag: UNITED States. National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare

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• Members of Medicare Bipartisan Commission are appointed.
  Sweeney, Rosemarie; Rose, Verna L. // American Family Physician; 01/01/98, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p13 

  Reports that appointments have been announced by the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future Medicare from the President Bill Clinton and Congressional leaders of both parties. Responsibilities of the commission; Identification of the appointments; Listing of other commission members.

• Commission far from consensus on how to save Medicare.
  Manos, Diana // AHA News; 12/07/98, Vol. 34 Issue 45, p1 

  Reports that the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare is still far from consensus on how to save Medicare. Information on a proposal to give Medicare beneficiaries a fixed annual amount for health care coverage; Reason for opposition to the proposal.

• Medicare panel to consider shifting GME, DSH funding.
  Weinstock, Matthew // AHA News; 01/11/99, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p1 

  Announces that the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare is likely to recommend that two key hospital subsidies be eliminated from Medicare. Details on the idea being pushed by Commissioner Bill Frist, a Republican senator from Tennessee; Annual total of...

• Panel floats options for Medicare reform.
  Weissenstein, Eric // Modern Healthcare; 01/11/99, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p6 

  Reports on the approval of health care providers to the proposal of the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare to change Medicare to a designed contribution plan. Benefit of the proposal; Other proposal supported by the commission members; Proposal of the...

• What is Medicare's future?
  Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare; 01/25/99, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p27 

  Offers a look at what the future of Medicare might be after the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare releases its decision on Medicare reform. Factors that will determine the success of the report; Comments from experts.

• Panel seeks delay in early medicare.
  Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare; 03/09/98, Vol. 28 Issue 10, p4 

  Reports the plan of the National Bipartism Commission on the Future of Medicare to delay President Bill Clinton's eligibility Medicare plan. Provisions under the Medicare plan; Comments from the members of the commission; Reasons why the commission wants to delay the president's plan.

• Competition key to Medicare overhaul, experts tell commission.
  Cassil, Alwyn // AHA News; 08/17/98, Vol. 34 Issue 32, p3 

  Reveals that creating a system based on competition, not price controls, should guide the overhaul of Medicare for the 21st century, according to health care experts at the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Information on Medicare's administrative structure; View of...

• Now, the Hard Part.
  Serafini, Marilyn Werber // National Journal; 11/21/98, Vol. 30 Issue 47/48, p2774 

  Offers a look at where the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare members stand as they devise reform recommendations that can be enacted by 1999. Challenges faced by the members; Opinion of John Breaux; Comments from Stuart Altman; Views of Laura D'Andrea Tyson;...

• Medicare reform gets a jump start.
  Serafini, Marilyn Werber // Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009); 01/15/99, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p1B 

  Focuses on United States-based National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare's review of several Medicare reform proposals.

• The Medicare Challenge.
  Serafini, Marilyn Werber // World & I; Mar99, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p34 

  Cites the problems and challenges posed by Medicare in the United States. Report from the Bipartisan National Commission on the Future of Medicare; Overview of the Medicare system; Alternative for Medicare reform.

• The Many Problems of Medicare.
  MOFFIT, ROBERT E. // World & I; Mar99, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p34 

  Reports on the problems facing Medicare program in the United States. Issue deliberation by the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; Money problem involving the program; Overview of the Medicare system.

• AHA recommends 3 for Medicare commission.
  MOFFIT, ROBERT E. // AHA News; 10/20/97, Vol. 33 Issue 41, p3 

  Reports that the American Hospital Association President Dick Davidson has recommended three hospital leaders namely, Sherif S. Abdelhak, Karin Dufault and Carolyn B. Lewis, as candidates for a seat on the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare created by the Balanced Budget...

• Breaux to chair Medicare panel.
  MOFFIT, ROBERT E. // AHA News; 01/26/98, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p3 

  Reports about the appointment of Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Appointment also of Representative Bill Thomas of California by United States President Bill Clinton and Republican congressional leaders;...

• Medicare trust fund buys a little time, trustees report.
  Frommer, Frederic J. // AHA News; 05/04/98, Vol. 34 Issue 17, p3 

  Reports on the annoucement of the presidentially appointed Medicare trustees that the hospital insurance trust fund will remain solvent through 2008. Information on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; Consequences of this news according to Rick Wade, senior vice president for communications of the...

• Calling Congress.
  Meyer, Harris // AHA News; 05/04/98, Vol. 34 Issue 17, p5 

  Reports on the organization and regulation of the health care system in the United States. Disagreement between conservatives and liberals on how to operate the health care system; Information on the bipartisan commission appointed by President Bill Clinton to develop reform recommendations on...

• Medicare commission backs premium supports--in concept.
  Weinstock, Matthew // AHA News; 02/01/99, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p1 

  Reports on the failure of the members of the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare to save Medicare from bankruptcy in early 1999. Details on the plan that caused a debate; Why some commissioners are against the extension of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA);...

• Breaux unveils plan for Medicare revamp.
  Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare; 01/25/99, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p4 

  Highlights the plan of Senator John Breaux, chairman of the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, to revamp the system that Medicare is implementing. Where Medicare would be modeled; Information on the proposal of President Bill Clinton to extend the life of the...

• Medigap reform ahead?
  FISHER, MARY JANE // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services; 1/11/99, Vol. 103 Issue 2, p1 

  Reports that the medicare supplemental insurance coverage or Medigap is being scrutinized by the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Issue on whether Medigap is adding to the costs of the program; Information on the study released by the Health Insurance...

• Saving medicare: premium supports.
  Benjamin, Georges C. // Physician Executive; May/Jun99, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p78 

  Describes efforts to ensure the fiscal solvency of Medicare. Overview of the program; Projected bankruptcy of the Medicare trust fund; Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare Care's efforts to address the health care system's insolvency problem; Proposals to correct the lack of...

• A sickly start for the Medicare Commission.
  Serafini, Marilyn Werber // National Journal; 3/21/98, Vol. 30 Issue 12, p636 

  Focuses on how the US National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare manages the program's financial problems. Holding of the first public meeting of the 17-member group; Views of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) on the issue; Some ways to solve the financial crisis of the...

• Federation backs private-sector approach to Medicare.
  Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare; 12/14/98, Vol. 28 Issue 50, p8 

  Reports that the Federation of American Health Systems supports changing Medicare to a `premium support' program under which Medicare would help seniors buy private-sector healthcare coverage. Information on the recommendations submitted by the federation to the National Bipartisan Commission...

• Stop us before we spend again!
  Cohen, Richard E. // National Journal; 1/24/98, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p164 

  Discusses the pressure placed upon the appointment of US Senator John B. Breaux and Representative William M. Thomas as the chairmen of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. How they will streamlined the federal budget for various medical programs proposed by the...

• Medicare Premium Support Plan Would `Remake' Medigap Mkt.
  Fisher, Mary Jane // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services; 6/7/99, Vol. 103 Issue 23, p31 

  Discusses the bipartisan premium support proposal by John Breaux, D-La., and Bill Thomas, D-Calif., which focused on the remake of the Medigap market. Reaction of Trent Lott, the United States majority leader; Information on the final proposal; Details on the creation of another Medicare Board.

• Congressional freshman Jindal makes it to head of new class.
  Crouere, Jeff // New Orleans CityBusiness (1994 to 2008); 1/10/2005, Vol. 25 Issue 27, p25 

  The article reports that Bobby Jindal was officially sworn in as Louisiana's new 1st District congressman. Jindal has experience in Washington, D.C, as the executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and as the assistant secretary for planning and...

• Budget Q & A.
  Weissenstein, Eric // Modern Healthcare; 01/25/99, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p2 

  Interviews Daniel Mendelson, associate director for health and personnel of the United States (US) Office of Management and Budget of the White House, about health initiatives. Budget reconciliation bill in 1999; Role of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; Impressions...

• Panel hits snag over prescription benefits.
  Gardner, Jonathan // Modern Healthcare; 02/01/99, Vol. 29 Issue 5, p6 

  Unveils the premium support plan of Stuart Altman and Laura Tyson, commissioners of the United States National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, to overhaul a prescription drug benefit presented by Senator John Breaux. Competition on the prescription drug benefit; Critics of the...

• Short takes.
  Hawkins, James A. // Physician Executive; May/Jun99, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p7 

  Presents news briefs related to medical care in the United States, as of May 1999. Includes National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare's failure to reach a consensus plan to reform Medicare; Growth in the number of health maintenance organizations offering complementary and...

• Statement on the appointment of Senator John Breaux...
  Clinton, Bill // Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 1/26/98, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p91 

  Presents the text of a statement given by the president of the United States on January 16, 1998 which deals with the appointment of Senator John Breaux as chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.

• Jindal's role in Breaux's legacy.
  Maginnis, John // New Orleans CityBusiness (1994 to 2008); 02/09/98, Vol. 18 Issue 32, p15 

  Opinion. Focuses on the impact of the appointment of Bobby Jindal to top health care officer of the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare in New Orleans, Louisiana, has on the political career of Senator John Breaux. Information on Jindal plans for the state; Background information...

• Moment of truth.
  Gergen, David // U.S. News & World Report; 02/15/99, Vol. 126 Issue 6, p68 

  Editorial. Discusses the need to reform Medicare in the United States. Importance of Medicare to the elderly; Beneficiaries; Troubles facing Medicare, and its impending bankruptcy; Expected report from the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, which is due March 1, 1999;...

• Almost a fountain of youth.
  Ross, Betsy McCaughey // U.S. News & World Report; 04/12/99, Vol. 126 Issue 14, p30 

  Examines the impact of progress in medical research on the solvency of Medicare in the United States. Projection that Medicare will be insolvent in 2015; Effects of medical research on how people grow old and die; Work of the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare; Alleviation of the...

• Remarks announcing appointments to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare...
  Clinton, William J. // Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 12/8/97, Vol. 33 Issue 49, p1985 

  Presents a transcript of United States President Bill Clinton's remarks announcing appointments to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and during an exchange with reporters on December 5, 1997. Appointees to the commission; Medicare reforms that have been signed into...